“There are a lot of misconceptions about [illegal aliens] and a lot of them came here just because they want to work,” Zuckerberg, who has bankrolled a massive ad campaign to push immigration reform, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“To compare legalizing the status of those who criminally entered and reside in our nation to the struggles of those who faced racial or gender inequality is wrong,” fumed Gosar. “There is a legal process to enter our nation and we should not reward those who circumvented it.

“If Mr. Zuckerberg insists on weighing in on immigration I invite him to take off his rose-colored glasses and come tour the Arizona border with me,” he said.

Zuckerberg’s FWD.us campaign is pushing Congress to act on legislation that would grant more visas for high-skilled workers, create a path to citizenship for American’s 11 million illegal aliens and secure US borders.

Despite persistent opposition to reforms, Zuckerberg said that he remains optimistic.

“I’m fundamentally an optimistic person as an entrepreneur. The vast majority of Americans want this to happen. We have to push forward. It needs to happen,” he said.

Zuckerberg also slammed the Obama administration for the massive surveillance of Americans’ phone, email and online activity.

“I think the government really blew it on this one and I honestly think they are continuing to blow it in some ways, and I hope they become more transparent,” he said.

He was more forgiving about the administration’s botched ObamaCare Web site. “Sometimes stuff doesn’t work when you want it to,” he said. “We’ve certainly had plenty of mistakes and things that haven’t worked the way that we want to. The right thing here is to just keep on focusing on building a service that you think is right in the long term.”

Sad, very sad.. That all those that have commented are so very small-mined. I feel sorry that all of you can not see past your noses. And if you're screaming about those crap jobs that they are doing, if you need a job why not go out and get that job yourself. It won't pay as much as you think you deserve, because you're white and "legal", but at least you would have a job. So it is so sad that you are so much against immigration reform but can give no thoughts on how to fix it other than saying shoot them all and build a fence. Come up with a real idea for reform and maybe someone will listen to you.

@Kim M Serrahn Yeah you realize the company's illegal immigrants work for DO NOT want to hire Americans to do the work. I've actually tried to work at a lot places like small factories, bread factories, certain restaurant's and they pretty much told they weren't hiring or would only pay $4 an hour. I also think people are ignoring and also don't compare how illegal aliens affect employment of young, workings class, and impoverished americans. They're doing a lot of damage and also depressing the wages of these people. But the fact is no one cares about poor americans. Republicans want cheap labor and democrats are salivating at the millions of poor illegal immigrants that they see as potential future voters. The only way to end the depression of wages is by deportation.

Remember that Obama deported has deported 2 million illegal aliens since he's been in office. We could deport even more if we tried out best if we deport enough they will start to self deport and out problem will be solved. It's not our responsibility to employ poor people from other country's.

Mr. Taormina up until the last election most immigrates voted Republican. But why not give amnesty to those that have been here for years and learned English and went to school and graduated, some with honors, and where brought here as children by their parents. Remember that the only true native Americans are the native peoples that were here when Europeans first landed here.

DEFENITLY yes. 99.5% come to these country to make ends need's for their families. hard working people during illegal status they don't ask for the tax return, do the nasty work that so call Americans do not do and lass but no lease work for minimum salary. and let me remain you what happen in Louisiana when Katrina struck contractors took a lots of people to work clean the place and rebuilt after they finish the contractor call immigration and DO NOT PAY their salary and to conclude if investigated they are in the UNITED STATES ARM FORCES protecting for you freedom

@Miguel Romero Stop lying dude Illegal Aliens are not allowed to join the military. Now their are people in the military who were at one point here illegally but they were legal before they entered the military. As for Katrina a lot of Americans wanted to help rebuild and clean up but the contractors wouldn't hire them. We need to fine those contractors until pee blood so they stop causing this problem.

Just because he is a founder of Facebook does not de facto make him an authority on immigration. Instead of legalizing illegal immigrants the government should enforce the policies in place, and not be swayed by those who have little insight such as Zuckerturd.

Sure get illegals legal status, so a bunch of the elites have a labor pool of minimum wage workers. Than they can demand that American workers work for less and less. We don't even have jobs for our own people let alone illegals. Democrats vote everyone of them out of office.

rich boy just wants more people logging on .... no concern for the average American that gave him his wealth in the first place ... maybe its time we start deleting our face book accounts and find another solution ...

@Paul Vincent Zecchino Yup!!! I love when these leftistas say "they do they jobs American's wont do"... Take away American's welfare, their food stamps, their medicare, their gasoline tax credits - and BOOM - you'll see a lot of fat stupid white people making beds at the Marriott and Pedro can go back to Mehico. The democrats like to say American's wont do these jobs... they SHOULD do these jobs. its better than being on welfare... but they would rather BUY the American's votes for the democrats with gifts and keep the immigrants here doing menial work...

@JoeyBaltimore@Paul Vincent Zecchino Most all employers of illegals are (R) CEOs, Big Service Cos., Construction companies and Restaurants. Cheap cheap labor makes for bigger profit margins AND no healthcare which is funded by taxpayers.

He needs to stop hiring all those h 1 b visa people from China and India and hire US citizens who cant find jobs in their fields because people like him need to make more money and want to flood the market with people so they can pay them less.

His advocating for these kids is just another similar situation. He has no idea what its like at the bottom where all these people will be working and competing with our own for the same jobs while seeing their wages depressed.

We dont need more immigrant workers with 20 million of our own out of work. We have brought in millions during this depression while at the same time creating few jobs so we have hurt our own who need to keep a roof over thier head; food on the table and run up entitlements and a 17 trillion dollar national debt.

Yeah, and this crook just wants to steal our identity and invade our privacy. Don't listen to anything this shady loser says. Quit facebook and join some other site like Ravetree, EveryMe, or Zurker. Anything that actually offers privacy.